Hmmmm... Why did I just order a 49" tv for my 5 year olds room....:neutral_face:

You's are my witnesses, my wife mumbled that I should get it in her sleep...

Picked up 2 of these from my local super store, they had quite a few and they didn't seem to be any big rush for them. Have installed one and my initial thoughts are - my last used 20 years ago aerial doesn't seem to be working so no Freeview. Linked it into my video processor and adjusted the picture, very few options here, for example no ability to change individual colours or hue etc.

It feels light weight and cheap. It is quite a thick unit at the back and doesn’t sit as flush to the wall as my older set, I have about a 10 cm gap now.

The set shows up the difference between my sources far more than my other screens do. My skybox feed looks better than my freesat box. Not sure if this means the set is actually resolving the picture better but in viewing terms…

To me the picture quality looks worse than my old, but well regarded in its day, Hitachi 32" 720p screen and my projector too for that matter, some judder on panning, some halos round people etc (even with sharpness turned to zero) some jagged edges and distortion on spots/lines etc but for £199 I don't think you could expect more. Its all liveable with and better than one should expect for the best picture

Audio sounds pretty good on speech – haven’t listed to music or action films yet

Apps – These look to be heavily biased at Europe and it took me a while to work out where the headline UK apps were, but once I found them they all worked far faster than my Now tv box does, probably because the TV is hardwired to the LAN

The biggest issue I think is the feet, if you are planning to use the feet and a table it needs to be at least a meter wide. The feet are 97cm apart to the outside edges. The other option is to buy a table top mount that uses the VESA mounts on the rear.

Think of it as a bargain priced cheap TV and all in all for £199 I don’t think many people will be disappointed.

Thanks to the OP. Ordered Friday AM delivered Sunday AM!

Set up and working fine. I've upgraded the firmware, they call the new firmware "Netflix Update" but it also has a new iPlayer version with live TV over the internet.

There is a leaflet inside the box to EXTEND the warranty free by 6 months (18 month total) worth doing this now / when you unbox

Pros
- Picture Quality. This is a great LCD panel with back lit LED. Colours are bright and picture / motion is fine. Watched Planet Earth 2 and the expereince was very good.
-Sound. Ok this is a budget TV but the sound on this TV is exceptional at this price point. The speakers are large (indeed they make the screen thicker than you might expect but that's OK for better sound IMHO. As well as decent speakers and amps the unit has DSP processing for virtual surround and supports various audio formats. Amazing! The volume control is well thought out with ballistic control providing a good range of sound control for quiet and loud listening 10/10
- Excellent remote (not a Netflix users but I keep pressing the huge Netflix button by mistake) might be worth waiting until Dec to try the free one month so you have it over the festive period?
-iPlayer implementation superb defaults to HD which is fine, option to downgrade to lower bit rate if you have a slow / busy internet connection
-WiFi simple to setup and secure 2.4.gHz only but WiFi at this price point is amazing. Works well
-YouTube App some minor bugs (initial stream may stall) works well with Android Phone you tube app TV appears as a casting device, Was able to login to my account on the TV see my subscriptions and push new items onto my queue from the phone. Interface using the remote was also good.
-Miracast works well can push photos etc from phone reasonable and fast implementation
-HDMI full CEC support (disabled by default)
-Simple to use user interface
-TV Tuner (not tested) appears to have USB Storage based PVR
-Vesa 200 x 200 and 11kg so simple to install and lift. I ordered this stand (302043368020) but overkill but it has scope to holder larger / heavier screens, Don't need the pull out feature for watching but it makes cleaning the vents, installing new devices simpler.



Cons (both really minor - its me knitpicking)
Slight light bleed on high brightness to be fair you'd only turn up the brightness to these high levels in daylight also when a picture is displayed on the screen there is ZERO bleed visible this is not a problem with the TV all low end TV and some mid range units have uneven backlighting. If you watch very dark images late at night or in a darkened room on ANY LCD TV you will see the backlights. Only emissive display technology eliminates this this is NOT a problem with this TV but all on emissive TV (e.g. all LCD tvs) at high brightness there is a small amount of panel bleed and on mine there is a very slight dark spot on the bottom right corner. Again hard to notice and certainly not worth returning the unit. I've seen far was worse on the edge lit TV costing much more! If this is an issue set the TV up to Movie mode and adjust / calibrate to minimise the impact. This should not stop you buying this TV as its a by product of the backlighting system in use.
There is very minor light spilling out of the rear of the unit again not a problem and expected on these lower end models
-Some complex features like CEC turned off by default probably to reduce tech support calls from folk who might not need this. Those who do can turn it on.

It's also £115 more...

got one thanks. I thought I was gonna have to get up at stupid o'clock for this

I got mine and gonna cancel my other order tomorrow morning

Hot

Got mine too!

Great deal.

Ordered thanks

Got one!!

Plus add a Roku stick for £8 when buying a TV at Tesco.